What is cookies and How it work?
Cookies plays a pivotal role in shaping online experiences.
Cookies remember a person’s login information on websites.
This means user don’t have to repeatedly enter the credentials every time makes a revisit.
By armed with these cookies, online shopping feels likes a personalized experience.
Facebook and Google uses these cookies to track online behavior and ingest ads as per the preference.
What is cookies and How it work?
There is flip side for cookies with privacy issues and data misuse.
Types of Cookies
Session cookies are temporary cookies stored in the computer memory upto browsing sessions ends.
Persistent cookies are the digital equivalent of bookmarks and stay even after the browsing session ends.
Persistent cookies feeds the login information, language preferences, and even the ads user have interacted with.
Secure cookies are only sent over encrypted connections and secure from prying eyes.
Secure cookies used for sensitive data.
Third-party cookies are comes from a domain other than the one you are visiting.
They are often used for tracking and advertising purposes, which can be both useful and, at times, intrusive.
Uses of cookies
Cookies serve a multitude of purposes in the online world.
Cookies act as digital ID card, keeps you logged in during the visit.
Foster a sense of personalization such as website theme or language preference.
Functions as a digital equivalent, ensuring the items you added remains when you return.
Cookies helps to gather invaluable data analytics , enabling them to customize content.
Challenges associated with cookies.
Privacy concerns arise often harmless sometime encroach privacy.
Security risks loom when cookies are inadequately secured.
This might open for cyber crimes.
Steps taken for safe cookies
Necessitating website approval before deploying certain cookie types.
India’s newly enacted Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 .
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